RBS 6 Nations Live Challenge app pairs sports and social: Hands-on
Rugby-loving couch potatoes beware: RBS expects you to flex your brain, if not your muscles, through the Six Nations tournament this year. The sports-sponsoring bank has created an interactive quiz, fixtures and social app for 2012, with game-related questions, score tables and Facebook integration for those particularly competitive. Available in versions for iPad, iPhone, Android and Facebook, we grabbed some hands-on time with the free Live Challenge app before its full release. Although RBS had a fixtures app for the 2011 tournament, this year’s update aims to monopolize your lap while you are actually watching the sport. RBS will push out questions matching the live gameplay, with multiple choice responses and – immediately after – the risk to determine how your answer compared with the entire other gamers. There’s also a penalty game, where that you can predict whether the ball will make it throughout the posts, go left or [...]
